I'm looking for a quad port gigabit network card that is active, not passive

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I’m looking for a quad port gigabit network card that is active, not passive

I would like to use this to reduce my IRQ CPU usage

What cards can you recommend for IPfire?

Thanks

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I am not quite sure I understand what this means…

But here are the LAN cards recommended:

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I means this

Is this a aktiv network card

Or this

Or this

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I’d vote as passive the RTL8125B based card. Beware of the knockoff i350, there’s a post on ServeTheHome forum on how discriminate. But it’s 8 years old.

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Are there any other serious differences between the two chips?
RTL8125B vs Intel I350

except the price

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IVMHO quite a lot.

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which is the better

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You asked for an active or passive adapter. Realtek is passive.
“Better” is a word that change meanings between contests.

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yes, I’m looking for a good 4 port active with 1gbits minimum

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Another option could be

Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719-4P (13th Gen)

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The high end Lightning wire routers have i350 nic. That is why I would pick it.
Have never seen the 4 port model.
Would look into the PCI band with required for that. I’m using a old Broadcom netxtreme card.
No problems there.

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looks good to me and it is active and drivers are available for ipfire

i.e. install it, let it get started

Or this

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You have to be careful with sites like Amazon, ebay, ali express etc as some of the items they sell are counterfeit or b-grade. I would only buy from a reputable online retailer.

For example in the UK,

Price is much higher but at least you know you are getting a genuine item and in this instance the latest 13th generation.

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Ok I thought I could save some money but I think I’ll take it

https://www.reichelt.at/at/de/netzwerkkarte-pcie-gigabit-ethernet-4x-rj45-broad-bcm5719-4p-p316988.html?r=1

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You can try a refurbished HP Enterprise NC364T PCI-E 4 port. I use 2 of them in my IPFire installation. They work out of the box as they are Intel chips and use the e1000e module / driver. Price 2 years ago was around €36.

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Thanks for the tip, it looks original and is cheap

Are there any major differences between the two cards

because broadcom is a lot newer

For me it’s about relieving the load on the CPU during high downloads through the active network card

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Keep also in mind that some of the active features like tcp offload increase the latency of a router. So often disabling some of the active features make the router faster…

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Any news? :slight_smile:

Which is your current CPU, @ipfireuser87?

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This is my ipfire system

https://fireinfo.ipfire.org/profile/17d94e763f9ebbd470a3e57866faffd5b7caf12f

I hope I can get rid of the IRQ CPU usage with the active network card

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I have now bought the HP NC364T PCI-E 4-PORT card, hope it helps

I currently have 110 mbits down and 15 mbits up

When I download full speed the IRQ CPU usage occurs

Next year upgrade to 300/30 hope the HP network card helps

I have cable internet and connect to the cable mode via dhcp

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leerlauf means… free?
So your CPU tops to… 10% during use?